272 The Principles of Fruit-growing. 
“Olden and Hale plans for peach orchards.—The Olden plan 
for a peach orchard is, to have the trees 16%¢x16%% feet 
apart each way, and in plain squares, making 169 trees per 
acre, aS in the lower section of Fig. 38. At convenient dis- 
tances for the passage of wagons, roads are laid out, making 
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Fig. 38. Hale and Olden plans for peach orchard. 
a series of large blocks. The contour of the ground and 
intervening rocky hillsides or oak forests left standing, 
do not always permit these blocks to be of regular size or 
shape. 
“Then, we have the great Hale peach orchards in Georgia 
and Connecticut, and who has not heard of them and of 
